HM Queen Elizabeth II's State Funeral - managing extra bank holiday

Hi All, 

I'm sure this must have cropped up in other schools, I've had several part time support staff who don't usually work a Monday ask whether they will get a day in lieu for the Queens funeral in recognition of the bank holiday. We gave lieu days for the Jubilee, however, this situation feels very different and schools have been told to close. What are other schools doing? 

Many thanks

Jen

In my mind I'm treating it like a snow day Jen. If we closed as a school because of snow, we wouldn't allow everyone who wasn't working that day to take a different day off. We're being asked to close by the DfE at short notice, for an entirely appropriate reason - so I'm only including anyone who would have been working that day. Hope that helps!

Although not a school, we are doing exactly the same Nina. In our minds this is different to other bank holidays where we would normally give part timer/compressed hours folks 1/5th of a week added onto their allowance, and then they'd book what they needed. Whilst it's a day off work, it is not the same as other bank holidays and I like your analogy to a "snow day", so thanks for that.

This is really interesting - we have treated it as we would any other Bank Holiday, which as this thread shows, has its own issues (particularly when it comes to part time workers). I'm interested to know why this Bank Holiday is different to the others - is it just because it is very last minute? It certainly makes sense to treat it as an 'emergency closure' in that sense, but in all other ways I'd say it's the same as any other Bank Holiday?

It has raised lots of comments hasn't it Maya? Our CEO/Director of Ops have decided against giving those part timers who don't work Mondays any pro rata time off to use another day as they say it is against the spirit of why the day was introduced in the first place. So far I have 1 disgruntled part timer who said it isn't fair out of over 20 other part timers who have accepted it.

It has raised lots of comments hasn't it Maya? Our CEO/Director of Ops have decided against giving those part timers who don't work Mondays any pro rata time off to use another day as they say it is against the spirit of why the day was introduced in the first place. So far I have 1 disgruntled part timer who said it isn't fair out of over 20 other part timers who have accepted it.

As the only part timer who doesn't work Mondays in my company I'm really not concerned about having additional pro-rated time off and won't be instigating it, particularly given how much time it actually equates to!